What Is It Good For? Shorts | Third Annual Zion International Film Festival

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1. Purga

Winter, 1942 in the Arctic Circle.

2. Boots on the Ground for Art

This film reflects the joy and honor of teaching Veterans representing all branches of the Military; and one sees that their talent is enormous. Military Veterans at The Oregon School of Arts under instructor Randall Vemer created several paintings on the theme ‘BOOTS ON THE GROUND FOR ART’. They were exhibited along with the film at 4 Veterans Administration venues in Portland Oregon May 2024.

3. One Fighting Irishman

One Fighting Irishman tells the story of San Francisco attorney Wayne M. Collins whose uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend twenty-three years representing over 5,000 of the most maligned Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship under duress while imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.

4. Ya Hanouni

While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?

5. Once a Child Soldier

Sayon Soeun breaks a 25-year silence to reveal his abduction by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge at age six, taking us behind the scenes with the children’s army as a witness to genocide. Footage from a lost archive reveals a war-torn country closed to Western media during the 1970s. We follow Sayon to America to track his remarkable recovery and eventual redemption, helping children enjoy the kind of childhood that was stolen from him. A trip to Cambodia to search for family finds Sayon plagued by doubt, so he insists his possible siblings take DNA tests. The results provide a dramatic ending.

 

6. Daylight Follows

A teenage American soldier survives D-Day whilst a Czechoslovakian boy suffers at Auschwitz before being forced on a death march west. Battling through Europe, the soldier discovers and liberates Buchenwald where the boy is fighting for his life. They form a friendship that lasts a lifetime.

Upcoming Showtimes

June 29, 2025
11:45 am
Blue Mouse Theatre
Tacoma
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